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  Jan 14 came and went but as expected there were no signs of 3G auction. Now, the Indian telecom minister, A Raja has spoken again, claiming that the 3G services auction will be done by the March-end. Yeah, he assured us the same thing every time but eventually an auction was delayed. “A notice [...]

  Till now we’ve seen gadget unboxings only from geeks but Google has decided to take the revered unboxing ceremony to the next level. For their Nexus One, Google hired Ninjas to do the task. Enjoy the action-packed video below and be glad that the phone start up after a violent unboxing!

  Apple’s event next week might be more than the announcement of the rumored tablet. If Fox News’ Clayton Morris is to be believed, the event in addition to the tablet, will see the new iPhone OS and 2010 version of the iLife software. Morris claims to have confirmed from a source working in Apple [...]

  DR-570 is not the only e-book reader Asus is working on. Asus confirmed to Register Hardware today about two more reader models. First is a 5.7-inch DR-750 model that is similar to DR-570 but sports a monochrome display, although it’s not clear if it will be an e-ink or OLED. The next model is [...]

  Its true folks. Apple is holding an event on January 27 to show off their “latest creation” and if our guess is good as yours, the rumored tablet seems closer than ever. Or not? We’ll have to see it next week. [Via Allthingsd]

  We’ve seen a lot of dissections before but it’s a rare sight seeing a teardown of an unreleased (yet confirmed) product. Dell teased us with the Mini 5 aka Streak MID at the CES and now thanks to this teardown from the Vietnamese site, we know few more important details. The innards consist of [...]

  A new rumor claims Apple is planning to launch a touchscreen equipped all-in-one this year. Digitimes cites Chinese newspaper Commercial Times who claims that Apple’s all-in-one line – iMac, that is – will have a new addition in the form of a 22-inch touch-enabled AIO. As with most of the rumors, this one too [...]

  Samsung has launched a new phone in India, which surprisingly is not from the Corby series. They’ve launched the Metro 5200, a 10.9mm slider phone that does not have anything spectacular on offer except for its 3.2MP camera with LED flash and face detection feature. Other things include quad-band GSM support, a 2.1-inch 16M [...]

  Western Digital has introduced a new My Book external desktop storage solution for the Indian market. The My Book 3.0 comes in capacities of 1TB and 2TB (expected later this month) and supports the newer, faster SuperSpeed USB 3.0. In fact, it is one of the first devices to be certified to work flawlessly [...]

  E-book readers were found aplenty on the CES showfloor but one company that refrained to show their creation was Asus. However, they’ve now decided to spill some details as well as a picture of their e-book reader, dubbed as DR-570. The DR-570 is expected to hit the retail shelves by the end of this [...]

  LG was showcasing the slim and lightweight X300 notebook at the CES last week but now they’ve gone ahead and launched it in their home market. Weighing in under a kilo (970g to be exact) and just 17.5mm in thickness, the X300 will come in two variants – one with a faster 2GHz Atom [...]

  Another chapter unfolded in the Apple-Nokia saga. Apple has now complained to the US ITC – government agency protecting unfair trade practices in US that Nokia products infringes on Apple patents and wants to ban all Finnish company’s imported products in the United States. Both the companies have been entangled in a patent infringement [...]

  Nokia’s unfathomable commitment to Symbian is no secret. Nokia has released some concept proposal UI for Symbian^4 and is currently asking for feedback from Symbian developers. The Qt built S^4 UI boasts revamped layout, support for irregular shaped homescreen widgets, improved task-switcher and more. Nokia has in fact, compared the UI to Android, webOS [...]

  ION2 did not come up at the CES but now we’ve got some meaty details regarding the next-gen ION by way of Asus’ EeeTop PC’s brochure leak. Blogeee discovered the ION2 mention in a listing of Asus’ EeeTop ET2010PNT and according to the doc, ION2 is the same as G310 GPU, which supposedly is [...]

  There are many good looking Android phones available right now but if guitar and Android are things you love, you should take a look at the new myTouch 3G Fender edition. T-Mobile and Fender have roped in guitarist Eric Clapton to market the device and boasts a unique Fender guitar sunburst-finish inspired design. To [...]